Invidious-for-Raycast

🎬 Raycast script for instant YouTube-to-Invidious conversion. Supports YouTube URLs, Shorts, youtu.be links, video IDs.

What is Invidious?

Invidious is a privacy-focused, open-source YouTube frontend. This script lets you seamlessly convert any YouTube link to Invidious and watch without ads or tracking.

Features

• ✅ Automatically extracts video ID from any YouTube URL format
• ✅ Check and cache the most popular Invidious instance (based on user count) for 24 hours (https://api.invidious.io/)
• ✅ Opens video in your default browser

Supported Input Formats

• Full YouTube URLs: youtube.com/watch?v=...
• YouTube Shorts: youtube.com/shorts/...
• Short links: youtu.be/...
• Embed URLs: youtube.com/embed/...
• Direct video IDs: 11-character codes

Installation

Download the open-in-invidious.sh script to your Raycast scripts directory

Usage

1. Open Raycast
2. Search for "Open in Invidious"
3. Paste a YouTube URL, Short link, or video ID
4. Press Enter
5. Video opens in Invidious in your default browser

Cache Management

The script caches the address of the best Invidious instance for 24 hours to enhance performance. To clear the cache manually:

rm /tmp/invidious_instances.cache